Every community has agreed upon answers to these questions. And every community has ways of dealing with those “in” (the cool, beautiful, worthy) and those “out” (dorks, losers, the damned). The recently reported case of an area teen bullied by classmates on Facebook reminds us these questions deserve our attention. I’ve written about this social hierarchy before, saying, “We can make ourselves more valuable (by becoming good, athletic, rich, pretty, popular, or by becoming a blogger!) or make someone else less valuable (through put downs, racism, discrimination, labeling).”
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